- Nov 07, 2020
Fear Quotes
Fear fades fastest when it's named directly.
This collection pairs personal courage with public conviction - resolve around national security, wariness of concentrated institutional power, and the belief that a government secure in itself should welcome, not dread, criticism. Related reading in Fearless Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel liberated, empowered, inspired and motivated. Fear holds you back from achieving what you want in life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state - that devouring leviathan - will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest thing I've learned is just to not doubt myself as much as I do. Having self-doubt is definitely necessary, but it's about not letting it get in the way. When it turns into fear, you run into problems.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that when you are attacked like we were attacked in America by these terrorist groups, that we not only have to respond in kind, we've got to go farther. We've got to destroy these groups because just sure as we don't - if we didn't respond, we will be hit again and again and again, and we will live in fear.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
It may be that that we can sing what we often cannot say, whether it be from shyness, fear, lack of the right words or the passion or dramatic gift to express them. More souls have rallied to more causes by the strains of music than by straining rhetoric.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no fear of changing looks.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.
- Ghostly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what my sweet spot has been. It's personal stuff, dysfunction, fear of intimacy, family stuff, psychology stuff. I eviscerate myself onstage.
- Checked
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- Nov 07, 2020
The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
- Caring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know from personal experience how fear and low self worth can cripple one's ability to succeed in life. But with a little support, caring and inspiration, miracles can happen.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020